MSI Express
Contract manufacturing and packaging for foods
Maintenance Technician
About the job
- The candidate must be able to write work orders, parts requests, shift logs, routine reports, and correspondence.
- The candidate must be able to read and interpret safety rules, operating manuals, and maintenance manuals.
- The candidate must be able to stand, walk, bend, crouch, stoop, reach, stretch, step, climb, and sit frequently or throughout the shift.
- The candidate must be able to reach with their hands and arms, climb, and maintain balance.
- The candidate must be able to use ladders and climb stairs.
- The candidate must have appropriate eye, hand, and foot coordination to execute tasks properly.
- The candidate must be competent with personal computers or tablets and able to use handheld devices.
- The candidate must be able to lift up to 50 pounds regularly and occasionally lift or move up to 100 pounds with or without assistance.
- A high school diploma is required.
- The candidate must have at least two years of experience in an industrial setting.
- The candidate must have two to six years of experience in an industrial setting in a similar role.
- The candidate must have experience with electrical controls.
- The candidate must have seven years of experience in an industrial setting in a similar role for the advanced level.
- The Maintenance Technician troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains equipment using electrical diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and manufacturer specifications while following safety procedures and Good Manufacturing Processes.
- The Maintenance Technician uses an electronic computerized maintenance management system on a mobile device to document work orders and work performed.
- The Maintenance Technician performs routine preventive maintenance, including inspecting drives and belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters, and lubricating shafts, bearings, gears, and other machinery parts.
- The Maintenance Technician troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains mechanical and electrical equipment, including motors, pneumatics, electronic boards, programmable logic controllers, touch screens, displays, contactors, conveyors, blending, scaling, filling, cartoning, coding and printing, electrical, compressed-air, vacuum, hydraulic, and bulk-filling systems.
- The Maintenance Technician works on electricity systems for production and plant-support equipment ranging from single-phase to three-phase equipment and from 5 VDC to 480 VAC.
- The Maintenance Technician works with electrical wiring, relay logic, control circuits, and safety circuits.
- The Maintenance Technician checks blueprints, repair manuals, and parts catalogs as necessary.
- The Maintenance Technician tears down and rebuilds gearboxes, clutches, actuators, and other assemblies related to equipment repairs.
- The Maintenance Technician records and reports damaged, worn, or broken parts.
- The Maintenance Technician thoroughly cleans machines and machine parts, removing and reinstalling parts as necessary.
- The Maintenance Technician uses hand tools, power tools, and shop equipment, including drill presses, surface grinders, torches, plasma cutters, pipe threaders, brakes, presses, calipers, micrometers, measuring instruments, and test equipment.
- The Maintenance Technician fabricates parts and guarding and modifies parts for equipment repairs and improvements.
- The Maintenance Technician welds different grades of metal for repairs and fabrication using plant welding techniques such as MIG, TIG, and arc welding.
- The Maintenance Technician troubleshoots HVAC systems as needed.
- The Maintenance Technician follows company policies, including general manufacturing and safety practices.
- The Maintenance Technician reports food safety and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate corrective action.
- The Maintenance Technician trains junior or new technicians on equipment, procedures, and troubleshooting practices.
- The Maintenance Technician trains operators and other support staff in equipment operation, setup, and best practices.
- The Maintenance Technician completes preventive maintenance, product changeovers, corrective maintenance, and breakdown maintenance as requested.
- Experience in the food manufacturing industry is preferred.
- A 2-year technical or community college degree is preferred.
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting electrical and electronic systems is preferred.
- Basic to intermediate knowledge of programmable logic controller troubleshooting is preferred.
- A 2-year Associate of Applied Science degree is preferred.
- Advanced programmable logic controller troubleshooting skills are preferred.
- An electrician's license is preferred.
- Welding experience or certification is preferred.
- Metal fabrication experience is preferred.
About the company
MSI Express is a contract manufacturing and packaging partner for the food and beverage industry in the U.S., offering blending, filling, packaging, and private-label production across 15 facilities. Its services cover dry and liquid blending, bottle and stick-pack filling, pouching, secondary packaging, and manufacturing for vitamins, supplements, and dry pet food, providing turnkey, single-source solutions. It differentiates itself through scale, diverse packaging formats (including aseptic filling via Power Packaging) and large-scale blending capabilities from PacMoore Hammond, plus growth from strategic acquisitions and private-equity backing, all backed by SQF Level 3 food safety. Its goal is to be a trusted, end-to-end supplier in the CPG supply chain, helping brands bring products to market efficiently and safely.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Newcomerstown, Ohio
Founded
1998
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Nonantum closed MSI Express on March 24, 2025, adding fresh growth capital.
- Portage approved a 2024 expansion, adding a line and 15 jobs.
- Acquisitions since 2020 expanded capacity to over 2.5 million square feet.
What critics are saying
- MSI Express faces a February 2026 federal lawsuit, signaling customer-payment or contract friction.
- The 2024 NLRB charge in West Chicago exposed labor conflict and workplace-management risk.
- One allergen recall proved labeling failures can trigger customer losses and regulator scrutiny.
What makes MSI Express unique
- MSI Express runs 15 plants across six states for national food co-manufacturing.
- It combines aseptic filling, dry blending, pouching, stick packs, and secondary packaging.
- Power Packaging, PacMoore, and Express Packaging built a broad one-stop CPG platform.
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↓ -1%MSI Express named Contract Manufacturing Packaging Company of the Year 2025.
Contract manufacturing and packaging solution provider MSI Express, which services the food and beverage space, has been acquired by middle-market private equity firm Nonantum Capital Partners, according to a recent press release.
Nonantum announced the acquisition of MSI Express, a contract manufacturing and packaging partner for leading food and beverage brands.
In October 2020, MSI acquired Power Packaging's St. Charles, Illinois manufacturing facility, with liquid filling, dry blending, and pouching capabilities, from Post Holdings.
In 2005 MSI Express collaborated with the iconic Crystal Light brand and commercialized the first stick pack.